[Amps] TenTec+Nichrome

Bill Fuqua wlfuqu00 at uky.edu
Thu Mar 27 13:22:43 EST 2003


It only means that 29MHz was heating up the resistors and no more.
Most likely because circulating current was not only flowing thru the
Plate tuning capacitor but also thru the plate to ground capacitance
(plate to grid and plate to chassis and case).

73
Bill wa4lav


At 08:51 AM 3/27/2003 -0800, 2 wrote:
>**  After the October 1988 article on improved parasitic-suppression
>appeared in *QST*, Ten-Tec tried low VHF-Q suppressors but they abandoned
>the idea after they found such suppressors get quite hot at 29MHz on RTTY
>mode.  Nacherally, this meant the suppressors were doing their job.
> >



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